116-314 French Part 3: Language and Communication I

Credit Points

Coordinator

Prerequisites

116-214 French Part 2 Language, or equivalent.

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

Advanced written and spoken communication, advanced comprehension based on authentic audio-visual material and reading of a range of literary works. Students completing this subject should be able to: understand complex authentic audio-visual materials; produce written work in very accurate and fluent French in a variety of genres (modelling fictional or factual texts) and registers (from colloquial to formal); read a novel or a play in French with the same degree of facility as reading a comparable book in English.

Assessment

Continuous assessment: written assignments not more than 2000 (35%), oral tests of about 20 minutes (25%), aural test of 20 minutes duration (20%), written test of 1hr (20%).

Prescribed Texts

A collection of excerpts from texts available through the Department.

• Judge A. and Healey F. G, A Reference Grammar of Modern French. Edward Arnold, A Division of Hodder and Stoughton 1985.